Best Practices 1 - Second Life

	STEM/Climate Change, Mr. Ervin Howard, Elizabeth City State University


	Best Practices 1 - Second Life
		Mentor: Mr. Ervin M. Howard, EDUC 203 Description: 1. Collaboration and cooperation learning activities 2. Applying appropriate learning theories The EDUC 203 students are using a multi-user, virtual environment (MUVE) called SecondLife.

		As a three-dimensional world, the EDUC 203 students created avatars to interact, socialize, and communicate within a MUVE environment using chat and voice operated tools.

		The EDUC 203 students used SecondLife in discussing and developing ideas for climate change lessons within a selected MUVE setting. The students met at New London and Otium Beach to discuss these ideas using constructivist learning interactions based on the social activism theory.